choctaw
/chok-taw/US // ˈtʃɒk tɔ //UK // (ˈtʃɒktɔː) //
乔克托,乔克托语,乔克托人,乔科托
Definitions
n.名词 noun
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plural Choc·taws, Choc·taw for 1.
- : a member of a large Muskhogean tribe of North American Indians, formerly living chiefly in southern Mississippi, now in Oklahoma.
- : the language of the Choctaw, closely related to Chickasaw.
- : something unintelligible, as speech, illegible handwriting, or an ineffectual explanation; gibberish: My best efforts at clarity were Choctaw to him.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The first playmates of our infancy were the young Choctaw boys of the then woods of Warren county.
They participate equally in the advantages of the Choctaw academy, and have had many of their youth educated at that institution.
Eagle Dance, Choctaw—Holding the eagles tail in the hand, and bodies painted white.
At length six hundred Choctaw warriors arrived, and the army resumed its march.
Every one knows who his mother, in our sense, is: the Choctaw term denotes a tribal status.
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